Guide for hat-binding machines



(No Model.)

M. BIKER. GUIDE FOR HAT BINDING MACHINES.

Patented Oct. 1, 1895.

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MARY BIKER, OF YONKERS, NElV YORK.

GUIDE FOR HAT-BINDING MACHINES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 547,133, dated October1, 1895.

Application filed April 13, 1893.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, MARY BIKER, a citizen of the United States, residingat Yonkers, in the county of \Vestchester and State of New York, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Guides for Hat-BindingMachines, of which the following is aspecification.

Ordinarily in binding hats the binding is used in strips of sufficientlength to encircle the rim of the hat, and one end of the binding isapplied to the said rim and is, together with the rim, placed in a guideadjacent to the needle of the sewing-machine, and the binding is sewedround the rim until the two ends of the binding nearly meet. The ends ofthe binding are then turned in and are sewed to the rim. Thisnecessarily makes a break in the binding at the point where the endsmeet. The turned-in edges makea double thickness at this point, andthere is a want of finish which is decidedly objectionable. It ispossible to make much better work by first sewing the ends of thebinding together, so as to constitute a continuous ring or strip, andthen sewing one edge of the binding to the rim of the hat; but this isnot practicable with a sewing-machine using ordinary binders, inconsequence of the impossibility of taking the binding and the hat outof the guides as they are ordinarily constructed.

In order to make use of a continuous binding and at the same time securethe binding to the rim of the hat by the use of a guide and upon asewing-1nachine, I construct the guide as fully set forth hereinafter,and as illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is aplan view of my improved guide, showing the parts in one position. Fig.2 is a plan View showing the parts in the position which they occupy insewing a binding upon the rim of a hat. Fig. 3 is an end view of Fig. 2,and Fig. at an end view of Fig. 1.

The guide consists, substantially, of a plate A, of a guide I), and anedge-bearing 5 for the edge of the rim X of the hat, the saidedgebearing being in the form of a bar secured to a slide 6, which isadj ustably connected with the plate A-as, for instance, by means of abinding-screw 7, passing through a slot as in the slide 6so that thelatter may be moved Serial No. 470,227. (No model.)

back and forth to carry the bearing 5 to any suitable position beyondthe edge of the plate A.

The guide I) for the binding y consists of a plate bent at the outer endto form an inturned guide-lip 8 and extending into a recess in the underside of the plate A and adjustable longitudinally, so that the lip 8 maybe carried to any suitable distance to or from the edge of the plate A.The adjustment of the guide-plate b is effected by means of ascrewpin 9,extending from the plate through a slot to in the plate A and providedwith a bindingnut 10, by means of which the guide-plate may be securedin any position to which it is adjusted.

As shown in Figs. 2 and 3, when the hindingy, which is a continuousbindingthat is, consisting of a strip both ends of which have been sewedtogether to form a circleis to be applied to the rim X of a hat, theparts are set in the position shown in Figs. 2 and 8 that is, thebinding y is inserted beneath the bearing 5, with one edge extendingbeneath the guide-lip 8 and the other upward into the space between theedge-bearing 5 and the adjacent edge of the plate A, and the edge of therim X of the hat is placed against the outer edge of the bearing 5, andin order to maintain it in proper position the said bearing 5 ispreferably provided with guide plates or fingers 12 13, the formerextending above and the letter below the rim, as shown. The guide ofcourse is secured in proper position upon the work-plate of asewing-machine, so that the needle will penetrate both the rim of thehat and the binding at the proper pointas, for instance, at the point 3,Fig. 2.

The feeding devices of the sewing-machine will carry the rim of the hat,together with the binding, in the direction of the arrow, Fig. 2, andthis will be continued until the point t, where the stitching commenced,will be brought finally to a position adjacent to the guide device. Thesewing of course cannot be continued with the parts in the positiondescribed after the stitching at the point t is brought against the edgeof the inturned lip 8. The operation of the sewing-machine is thereforediscontinued when the stitching is nearly completed. The slide 6 is thenmoved to the right in the direction of its ar- ICO row, Fig. 1, and tothe position shown in Fig. 1, so as to carry it away from the edge ofthe rim, and the guide bis moved outward to the position illustrated inFig. 4, so as to carry the lip 8 away from the edge of the binding,releasing the same from the control of the guide I), after which thebearing 5 is moved to its former position and the sewing is continueduntil the complete circle of stitching is finished, when the rim, withthe binding secured thereto throughout its entire length, can be readilywithdrawn from the guide.

It will be seen that by making the bindingguide Z) adjustable, so as tocarry the guidelip 8 away from the edge of the binding when the latterhas been secured for nearly its entire length to the rim of the hat, Iam enabled to make use of a continuous binding instead of using stripsdisconnected at the ends, as heretofore.

Although I have described the guide as arranged with the binding-guideZ) below and the rim guide or hearing 5 above, the position of these twoparts might be reversed, in which slide 6 provided with the bar forminga guide.

and bearing for the hat rim, the slide Z) bent at the outer end to forman inturned guide lip, and means for securing said slides in position onthe plate, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

MARY RIKER. Witnesses:

ANNIE MARRAN, GEORGE O. MARI-IAN.

